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postponement

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,554 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: postponements

A postponement is the putting off of an event to a later date. Announce a postponement, a further postponement, postponement of the trial.

It carries a new date or the promise of one, which is what separates it from a cancellation. Repeated postponement is how things are cancelled without anybody having to say so.

Definitions of postponement

  1. 1nounpostponementThe putting off of an event to a later date.B2+

    “The couple asked for a postponement of their wedding after the bride broke her leg.”

postponement is a delay.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *tḱey-

  2. Latin

    postpōnō — to put after; to postpone

  3. English

    postpone

  4. English, today

    postponement

Built from

  • post · Latin — after
  • pōnō · Latin — to put; to place

From postpone + -ment. postpone comes from Latin postpōnō (“to put after; to postpone”) from post (“after”) + pōnō (“to put; to place”), compare forestall.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

postponement in the wild

  • However, following the postponement of the main 2021 World Cup tournament, the Emerging Nations World Championship was among the events that were cancelled.

    Rugby League Emerging Nations World Championship

  • Bowersox in the Journal of Business Logistics in 1988, which highlighted five types: labeling, packaging, assembly, manufacturing and time postponements.

    Postponement

  • Originally scheduled for November 1988, President Corazon Aquino and the military recommended its postponement for concern that infrastructure projects could be delayed in the provinces.

    1989 Philippine barangay elections

  • The game was originally scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, July 22, but heavy rains forced its postponement to the following afternoon.

    1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

  • But with the game's postponement until Wednesday afternoon, Nixon missed the game altogether and Vice President Spiro Agnew attended instead.

    1969 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the pōnō family

positionpurpose

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